Aug 29, 2005 - 12:00 am .- In a shocking decision last week, a federal bankruptcy judge ruled that all parish churches, schools and other property of the Diocese of Spokane could be liquidated to pay 58 alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse.

Aug 29, 2005 - 12:00 am .- The flurry of controversy surrounding a report published in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which claims that unborn babies cannot feel pain before the third trimester, has shifted its focus onto Journal editor, Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, a Catholic, and Eucharistic minister who says she supports a woman’s right to choose abortion.

Aug 29, 2005 - 12:00 am .- As Hurricane Katrina makes landfall, and as New Orleans and the U.S. gulf coast brace for what some meteorologists have called a “worst case scenario”, Catholic Charities USA has already begun collecting donations for the massive relief efforts which are sure to follow.

Aug 29, 2005 - 12:00 am .- In an article published in the Colombian daily El Tiempo, Rafael Nieto Loaiza, a former high-ranking official of the Justice Ministry in Colombia, denounced the political trickery of abortion supporters who are seeking to legalize the practice in the South American country.

Aug 29, 2005 - 12:00 am .- Archbishop Roberto Luckert of Coro, Venezuela, called on President Hugo Chavez this week to worry first about running his own country and “fixing the problems at home” before trying to solve the problems of other nations, whether through the purchasing of external debt or the sale of oil at lower prices.

Aug 29, 2005 - 12:00 am .- Spanish police arrested a man Wednesday in Barcelona who is suspected of having faxed a message in the name of Al Qaeda to the Spanish daily ABC threatening terrorist attacks against the Vatican.